THE AMERICAN DREAM

By: Anthony Gonzalez

What is your American Dream-- My American Dream is to be free, and being able to prosper no matter where you come from. It's not where you came from it's where you're going. As long as you work hard and never give up you can become anything you want to be. But you have to willing to give up who you are for what you will become.

Gatsby American Dream

I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.

In this part of the story Daisy said "Rich girls don't marry poor boys." This shows that even when they were in love. At the end of the day they couldn't of been together. Cause she was high class. And he was a nobody.

At the end of the story Mr.Gatz Gatsby's father shows up at the his funeral. He shows Nick a book with a schedule in it that Gatsby wrote when he was a child. This show that even as a young child and before Daisy he had ambition and a drive to get out of his situation and to better for him and the people he loved.